440 - Definition and Overview

Events

• September 29 - Leo succeeds Sixtus as Pope.
• Northern China is unified by the Wei Dynasty.
• Geiseric, king of the Vandals, captures Sicily.
• The Hepthalites, who will later be known as the Avars move south from the Altai region into Transoxiana, Bactria, Khurasan and eastern Persia.

Births

• Bodhidharma was a semi-legendary Indian monk

Deaths

• February 17 - Saint Mesrob, Armenian monk
• August 18 - Pope Sixtus III
• Paulinus, the master of the offices in Constantinople is executed.